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Mumbai Attack
Gaddafi’s conversion talk fuels row in Italy
Indian-origin Archie Panjabi wins Emmy
Archie Panjabi poses with her award for outstanding supporting actress in
drama series for ‘The Good Wife’ at the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. — Reuters |
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N Korea for resumption
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Mumbai Attack A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Monday dismissed a bail petition filed by the LeT operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, who is currently in jail in connection with the 2008 Mumbai attacks case. Lakhvi is among the seven suspects, who have been charged with involvement in the Mumbai carnage, which India says was carried out by the Pakistan-based LeT. Judge Malik Muhammad Akram Awan of the Rawalpindi-based anti-terrorism, who is conducting the in-camera trial, dismissed Lakhvi's bail application on the ground that it could not be maintained, sources said. Lakhvi's lawyer Khwaja Sultan, who has been accused by the prosecution of filing numerous petitions to delay the trial, said his client would now approach the Lahore High Court for bail. “We will decide on the date for filing the application in the High Court after getting the anti-terrorism court's detailed order,” Sultan said. Sultan claimed that bail should be granted to Lakhvi as the prosecution had been unable to produce any solid evidence linking him to the 2008 Mumbai attacks. He contended that the prosecution's case was based only on the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist convicted and sentenced to death by an Indian court for his role in the attacks. The prosecution had produced five policemen who testified that Lakhvi was a top LeT commander but had been unable to give any proof linking him to the Mumbai incident, he claimed. The prosecution had challenged the bail application, saying there was enough evidence to nail Lakhvi. The next hearing in the Mumbai attacks case is scheduled for September 18. At that hearing, Judge Awan is expected to take up two applications filed by the prosecution one seeking voice samples of the seven accused and another for an Indian magistrate and police official to testify via video conferencing. Defence lawyers have opposed both applications, saying they are not permissible under Pakistani laws. — PTI
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Gaddafi’s conversion talk fuels row in Italy
Rome, August 30 Gaddafi made the comments on Sunday during a lecture to 500 young women hired and paid by an agency to attend his lecture. "Islam should become the religion of all of Europe," one of the women quoted Gaddafi as saying in the Italian press. The agency paid the women, mainly students who hire themselves out for advertising of publicity events, 70 or 80 euros to attend and said it would not pay girls who gave their names to the press. It also told them to dress conservatively for the lecture. About 200 women today gathered at the Libyan cultural centre in Rome to attend a second lecture. The lectures are "a new, humiliating violation of Italian women's dignity," opposition lawmaker and former health minister Rosy Bindi said. Gaddafi 's show also caused discomfort within the coalition of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a close ally of the Libyan leader. "Gaddafi 's words show his dangerous Islamisation project for Europe," said European MP Mario Borghezio of the anti-immigrant Northern League, junior partner in the coalition, according to Il Messaggero.
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Indian-origin Archie Panjabi wins Emmy
Los Angeles, August 30 Panjabi was pitted against the likes of Rose Byrne ("Damages"), Sharon Gless ("Burn Notice"), Elisabeth Moss and Christina Hendricks (both for "Mad Men") and co-star Christine Baranski for "The Good Wife". She made her film debut in the British hit film "East Is East" in 1999.
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N Korea for resumption of N-talks
Beijing, August 30 Hu held talks with Kim, Chinese officials media reported today confirming for the first time Kim's visit. Kim pledged to remain in close consultation with China and hoped for the "early resumption" of the six party disarmament talks that also include South Korea, the United States, Japan and Russia, the report said. — PTI
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Gun rampage leaves seven dead in Slovakia
Bratislava, August 30 “In a shooting shortly after 10:00 am local time (0800 GMT), at least 20 people were injured and seven of them died,” emergency services spokeswoman Dominika Sulkova told AFP. Sulkova had earlier told AFP that the death toll was six. She declined to say if the seventh person was the gunman or a new victim. However, local media said the gunman killed himself after the rampage in a housing estate in Devinska Nova Ves, a northwestern district of the city. “Fourteen people including a three-year-old child were taken to hospital, while light injuries were treated on the spot,” Sulkova added, saying the child’s life was not in danger. The death toll might still rise as “out of the wounded, three people suffered serious injuries”, Sulkova said. Marta Vozbranukova, a teacher working at a kindergarten close to the scene, told AFP she had witnessed part of the rampage. “I saw an older man carrying an automatic gun walking towards a prefab house,” she said. “After a while, an injured man of a Roma origin, whose family lives in the house, ran out and fell on the ground where the gunman shot him two or three more times.” “The gunman then started shooting on the street,” said the teacher, adding there were no children at the kindergarten during the incident. The SME daily said on its website earlier that the gunman might have been a 15-year-old drug addict who shot himself dead after the rampage.
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Indian origin British actress Archie Panjabi, who starred in films like "Bend it like Beckham" and "East is East", has bagged the best supporting actress in a drama series for her role in "The Good Wife" at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards here.
North Korea is willing to return to the negotiating table for early resumption of international talks on its controversial nuclear
programme, country's reclusive leader Kim Jong II told Chinese President Hu
Jintao.
